CRASH

a mass market copy of the Canterbury Tales because well because we are

let it fall apart let it turn to ash

later in life I take the elevator in a city hotel to the top floor

I don’t tell him it won’t bounce when he drops it off the roof

don’t ask how we got out onto the roof anyway

and don’t look away right before the splatter that’s the best fucking part

Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of the literary arts journal GIGANTIC SEQUINS. She has two poetry chapbooks, her most recent being EFS & VEES, which came out with Hyacinth Girl Press. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and is pursuing her PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A poem of hers was a finalist for the 2016 Yemassee Poetry Prize. Follow her on twitter @kimannjosouth and visit her at kimberlyannsouthwick.com for more.

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